Quotes About Focus

One sees more clearly in the fog because one has to look harder.

You cannot carry water on both shoulders.

student wrote: If one is trying to do something really well, one becomes, first of all, interested in it, and later absorbed in it,which means that one forgets oneself in concentrating on what one is doing. But when one forgets oneself, oneself ceases to exist, since oneself is the only thing which causes oneself to exist. —Christmas Humphreys, Concentration and Meditation For

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

You always have God's undivided attention.

First priority becomes first action.

It's the work on your desk. Do well with what you already have and more will come in.

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.

Ever since you were a boy, you've dreamt of being Kung Fu Guy.

When I am looking through the viewfinder and I have the Frame of Reference filter set just right, I can, if I choose to, relax my mind in such a way as to imagine that I have actually become one with the device, have merged with it, and after a while the distinction between my vehicle and me gets a bit confused. I

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as "I'm a good person for doing this" or "Isn't it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?," then that would be sufficient.

Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.

We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.